San Bernardino County, CA, Biographies
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SAMUEL C. PINE,
for over thirty years has been a resident, and identified with the varied
interests, of San Bernardino County. He is now engaged in general farming
operations upon 160 acres of productive land located in Chino Township, Chino
school district, four miles south and east of Chino. In 1867 Mr. Pine purchased
a squatter's claim
to this land, which was then in its wild and uncultivated state. He spent years
in litigation with grant claimants, but finally secured his Government patent.
The first year of his occupancy he devoted his attention to stock-growing, but
later commenced a system of general farming that has been successful and
remunerative. He has a vineyard of ten acres of raisin grapes of the Muscat
variety; also several varieties of table grapes; ten acres of orchard which
produces a fine variety of peaches, apples, plums, apricots, pears, figs,
prunes, nectarines, etc. His soil and climate seem well adapted to the
successful growing of deciduous fruits. The remainder of his lands is devoted to
hay, grain and stock. Of the latter he raises good grade stock of cattle and
Norman draft horses. He' is a successful farmer and an illustration of what
energy and enterprise, combined with sound sense and business habits will do
when applied to the lands of Rincon valley. Mr. Pine can well be styled a
pioneer of San Bernardino County, and a brief review of his life is of interest.
He dates his birth in St. Lawrence County, New York, July 30, 1825. His
great-grandfather, Joseph Pine, was a native of Italy who emigrated to the
Massachusetts colonies before the Revolutionary war. He was one of the thirteen
patriots that fired the first volley at the historic battle of Lexington, and
later was commissioned as an officer in the continental army, and served
gallantly throughout the years of the Revolutionary war. Mr. Pine's father,
Joseph Pine, was a native of Boston, Massachusetts, but in early life located in
New York, and for nearly forty years was connected with the educational
interests of that State as a teacher and professor in various colleges. He
married Miss Delia Winna, a native of that State. In 1833 the parents of the
subject of this sketch moved to Ohio and located in what is now Lake County, and
there engaged in farming. Mr. Pine was reared to that calling. In 1847 he went
to Quincy, Illinois, and engaged in the lumber business until 1850. In that year
he fitted out a train and crossed the plains to the South pass of the Rocky
mountains in Wyoming Territory. There he established a trading station and also
engaged in stock-growing. Mr. Pine spent about eight years in the
mountains as a trader, stock-raiser and miner. In 1858 he came to San Bernardino
County, and located about fifteen miles east of the county seat, where he
engaged in stock business. In 1861�'62 he built a lumber mill in Little Bear
valley, twenty-five miles northeast of San Bernardino. This was the pioneer mill
of that section. He was engaged in that enterprise until 1865 and then settled
on Little creek in the dairy business, after which he spent a year on the Jurupa
ranch in stock business, and thence to his present residence.
Mr. Pine's long residence and varied interests, have gained him a large
circle of friends and acquaintances in the county, by whom he is respected and
esteemed. He is a member of San Bernardino Lodge, No. 146, I. O. O. F. In
politics he is a consistent Republican. He has for years held the position of
school trustee of his district. In Utah, in 1855, Mr. Pine married Miss Jane
Morrison, a native of Buffalo, New York, the daughter of John and Ellen
Morrison. From this union there are five children, viz.: Samuel, who married
Miss Beatrice Gregory; Edward, who married Miss Ellen Walkinshaw; Edwin, Myron
and Dudley. Samuel and Edwin are residents of San Diego County, and the other
children are residing in San Bernardino County.
SOURCE: An Illustrated History of Southern California: Embracing the Counties
of San Diego, San Bernardino, Los Angeles and Orange, and the Peninsula of Lower
California� Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1890. p.- 614-615
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler